Excerpt from The Discovered Country
I had about come to the conclusion that death ended all, that we were born to a world of toil and trouble, and death took us off the weary stage of life forever; and I now know that this is the experience of the greater part of humanity. If I could have known then a small part of what I now know my life on earth would have been to me a pleasure instead of pain, and it is to tell others a little of that which I now know that I write this book.
I desire to benefit humanity, to make them wiser, better and happier; absolute truth can do no harm under any circumstances, and whoever reads this book may know positively that it contains nothing but the truth, although written by the hand of a so-called dead man, one that ought, according to the Church creeds, the creeds that he spent years of his life in studying, one that ought, according to all this, have been banished into hell with the devil for his master and burning fiends with gnashing teeth for his companions.
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